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NEW YORK, Dec 11 — US comedian Bill Cosby, who is serving a three and a half year jail term, yesterday lost his appeal against his conviction for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman 15 years ago. Cosby had appealed to Pennsylvania’s Superior Court, which issued a 94-page ruling upholding...

Actor and comedian Bill Cosby arrives at the Montgomery County Courthouse for sentencing in his sexual assault trial in Norristown, Pennsylvania September 25, 2018. — Reuters pic

“We are very pleased with today’s Superior Court decision affirming the jury’s guilty verdict ... as well as the sentence,” district attorney Kevin Steele said in a statement.The 82-year-old, who shattered racial barriers with his role as a dad and doctor on the hit TV series, , was found guilty in 2018 of assaulting Andrea Constand at his Philadelphia mansion.

An earlier trial in June 2017 ended in a mistrial after the jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict. But the appeals court ruled that their evidence had established Cosby’s “unique sexual assault playbook.”

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

 

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